Families like Ours

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Families like Ours
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Danish Familier som vores
Written by
Directed byThomas Vinterberg
Starring
ComposerValentin Hadjadj
Country of origin
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Sweden
  • Czech Republic
  • Belgium
  • Norway
  • Germany
Original languages
  • Danish
  • English
  • French
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Romanian
No. of episodes7
Production
Executive producers
  • Anna Marsh
  • Ron Halpern
  • Jennifer Green
  • Katrine Vogelsang  [ da ]
  • Olivier Bibas  [ fr ]
  • Morgane Perrolier
  • Louise Gigon
  • Elisabeth Tangen
  • Johanna Lind
  • Claudia Grässel
  • Sebastian Lückel
  • Christoph Pellander
Producers
Cinematography Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editors
Running time49–50 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network TV 2
Release20 October (2024-10-20) –
1 December 2024 (2024-12-01)

Families like Ours (Danish : Familier som vores) is a 2024 drama television miniseries co-written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 31 August 2024 and began airing on TV 2 on 20 October 2024.

Contents

Premise

Due to rising sea levels, Laura and her family must navigate a nationwide evacuation of their native Denmark.

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDurationOriginal release date
1"The Hour Draws Near"
(Sig nærmer tiden)		49 min20 October 2024 (2024-10-20)
2"Separating the Wheat from the Chaff"
(Fårene skilles fra bukkene)		50 min27 October 2024 (2024-10-27)
3"The Angel's Watch"
(Stå, engle, på vagt)		50 min3 November 2024 (2024-11-03)
4"Farewell"
(Farvel, Danmark)		50 min10 November 2024 (2024-11-10)
5"Beyond all Boundaries"
(Over alle grænser)		50 min17 November 2024 (2024-11-17)
6"A Time to Get and a Time to Lose"
(Alt, hvad der sker under himlen)		50 min24 November 2024 (2024-11-24)
7"I Make All Things New"
(Jeg gør alting nyt)		50 min1 December 2024 (2024-12-01)

Production

Thomas Vinterberg conceived the idea for the series in 2017 while working abroad in Paris. [1] [2] He took inspiration from the 2015 film Brooklyn when writing the series, and further stated:

I was less interested in the politics of it. I wasn’t interested in making sort of a 'climate-warning' series. It's going to be called that in places, I'm sure, but I'm hoping not too often, because this is more about human resilience, about how humans can create coping strategies when there's a crisis and when they're being separated from what they love.

— Thomas Vinterberg [3]

Because he wrote the series before the COVID-19 pandemic, Vinterberg and co-writer Bo Hr. Hansen made some changes to the script so as not to mirror the pandemic too closely. The series originally took place in Kyiv before it was changed. [4]

The series was announced in August 2020 [5] [6] and the cast was announced in October 2022. [7] Filming took place in Denmark, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Romania, and France over the course of a year. The production employed over 40 actors and 2,500 extras. [8] [9]

Release

Promotional stills from the series were released on 4 December 2023. [10] A teaser trailer for the series was released on 28 August 2024. [11] [12]

The series premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 31 August 2024. [13] Because of Venice's own flooding concerns, Vinterberg stated, "Even in my first letter to Alberto [Barbera], I said there was no other place we can show this than in Venice." [14] The series received a four-minute standing ovation at the festival. [15]

The series began airing in Denmark on TV 2 on 20 October 2024. [16] It was released for streaming in Canada on CBC Gem on 22 November 2024. [17] [18]

Reception

Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline called the series "grimly prophetic" and wrote that it "tackles [a] subject that is perhaps too huge for the confines of a TV drama". [19] Jan Lumholdt of Cineuropa commended Vinterberg's direction and the cast's performances. [20]

Niels Jakob Kyhl Jørgensen of Filmmagasinet Ekko  [ da ] gave the series five out of six stars, writing, "Families Like Ours is both a tribute and a loving eulogy to the Danes — and the most riveting social story in years." [21] Jacob Ludvigsen of Soundvenue  [ da ] gave the series three out of six stars, writing that the series' "brilliant premise drowns in Thomas Vinterberg's wildly ambitious TV 2 series". [22]

Serena Seghedoni of Loud and Clear Reviews gave the series five stars and wrote, "Families Like Ours (Familier Som Vores)'s brilliant premise is exactly what it takes for Europe to understand the refugee crisis, in a marvel of a series that brims with humanity and puts its characters first." She also called it "the kind of series you don’t want to end". [23]

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References

  1. ↑ Lumholdt, Jan (3 September 2024). "Thomas Vinterberg • Director of Families Like Ours". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 3 September 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Almbjerg, Sarah Iben (3 September 2024). "»Hvor stærke er vi?« tænkte Thomas Vinterberg. Nu står han midt i en drømmemodtagelse i Venedig". Berlingske (in Danish). Archived from the original on 6 September 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  3. ↑ Wise, Damon (31 August 2024). "'Families Like Ours' Director Thomas Vinterberg On His Apocalyptic Series: "I Started Thinking, What Would Happen If We Became The Refugees?"". Deadline . Retrieved 31 August 2024.
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